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New recruits could be fast-tracked to be chief constables within ten years under plans announced today to attact the brightest and best into policing.

High-flying graduates will be spared the traditional two years pounding the beat and groomed to be chief constables by their early 30s. Up to 80 will be recruited at inspector level and the best moved up the ranks to become a new generation of chiefs.

The proposal is part of a package of measures under which foreign police chiefs would be able to become chief constables and businessmen could join the police at the rank of